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...The picture is a highlight among many large, sombrely beautiful and evocative 1950s-60s portraits in the Courtauld Gallery’s exhibition Frank Auerbach: The Charcoal Heads....
...But to capture the vision for Megasaki City in his stop-motion film Isle of Dogs, he and his team turned to the Japanese architect Kenzō Tange and American Frank Lloyd Wright as references for the film’s...
...In “Self-portrait in the Traditional Costume of the Bregenz Forest”, she looks out, frank, clear-eyed, from beneath a quaint black hat jauntily perched on neat braids, loyally announcing her Austro-Swiss...
...Frank Bowling’s “Middle Passage” (1970), hot reds and oranges surging across a map of Africa and ghostly figural outlines, is a glowing abstraction....
...Jackie Wullschläger is the FT’s chief visual arts critic Find out about our latest stories first — follow @FTWeekend on Instagram and X, and subscribe to our podcast Life & Art wherever you listen...
...Rothko Fondation Louis Vuitton, Paris (to April 2) Paris’s second trump card is its lavish private museums, led by Bernard Arnault’s Fondation Louis Vuitton in Frank Gehry’s irresistible cloudscape building...
...Frank Gehry’s giant spaces and exuberant architecture — the glassy curved building in the Bois de Boulogne suggests billowing sails — proved a perfect match for Joan Mitchell last autumn and Basquiat and...
...Lecavalier, punk ballerina with 1980s combo La La La Human Steps, co-starred in David Bowie’s Sound+Vision tour and performed a broken-doll duet in Frank Zappa’s Yellow Shark concert....
...And finally With a new show of his Frank Auerbach: The Charcoal Heads at the Courtauld Gallery in London, the painter tells our chief art critic Jackie Wullschläger why, at 92, he is more than ever acutely...
...They begin with his early direct style: “Catherine Moore” (1752), fiancée of architect William Chambers, meets us with a frank, intelligent gaze....
...These shows inspired a cult for Soutine in the small avant-garde circle of artists — Leon Kossoff, his close friend Frank Auerbach, Lucian Freud, Francis Bacon — loosely associated as the School of London...
...Michelangelo: The Complete Works: Paintings, Sculpture, Architectureby Frank Zöllner and Christof Thoenes, Taschen £60/$80 The fresh edition of this magisterial, engrossing study of Michelangelo as “prototype...
...Everyone’s focus has always been Jackie but, for me, it’s always been Lee. I think she was slightly less conservative....
...Then, as Monet — Mitchell begins its flight from ground floor to roof in Frank Gehry’s glassy, cloud-form building, her emphatic postwar American diction confronts refined old Europe....
...It turns out to be part of Frank Lloyd Wright’s Florida Southern College. “It’s the Polk County Science Building, one of his last buildings....
...A hefty, domed head of painter Frank Auerbach, dominated by his vast forehead, seems to depict the process of thought itself....
...Elfin, with auburn hair, bright blue eyes and spiky features, she was immensely warm, and incapable of pomposity — a presence as original, frank and electrifying as her art....
...Few living architects are as lauded as Frank Gehry, the Canadian-American Pritzker Architecture Prize winner whose work resonates so profoundly that he once played himself in an episode of The Simpsons....
...During sleepless nights in postwar London, the unknown and impoverished artist Frank Auerbach panicked that he could no longer afford paint and would have to stop working....
...In the 1960s, Frank Auerbach picks up the theme, battling sculptural layers of pigment and disappearing/reappearing motifs in the dense, luminous “Reclining Model in the Studio” and “Jym in the Studio”....
...Andy Warhol’s gloomy “Jackie Frieze” juxtaposes mass-media images of the president’s wife before and after she became a widow....
...people perform in a certain vernacular”, as Armet Francis put it, are outstanding — about construction of identity in response to racism and exile, part glorious account of what Caribbean artists, from Frank...
...In “Kaieteurtoo”, Frank Bowling pours and drips amber and rose, lime and orange, wet into wet, down a two-metre canvas; the painting, evoking light catching the rush of a torrent, is named after a waterfall...
...In 1790 Goya, dressed as a bullfighter, holds a palette picking out hues from his multicoloured jacket; he is frank, curious, beneath a too-large hat....
...like The Magnificent Seven which was showing at the local cinema and compare it with the Japanese film The Seven Samurai, then somehow link that culturally to James Joyce, the endless horizon, and how Frank...
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